Dr. Qingyang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of EECS at Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge. His research insterests are in distributed systems and cloud computing with a current focus on performance, scalability, and security of large-scale online services (e.g., Amazon.com). He has led research projects at LSU on cloud performance measurements, scalable web application design, and automated system management in clouds. Recently he is actively applying some noval performance analysis techniques to detect and defend the stealthy trend of low volume DDoS attacks. He has collaborated extensively with scientists and researchers from industry companies, including IBM, HP, Amazon, Fujitsu (Japan), JD.com (Silicon Valley).

Dr. Wang graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2014. He has previously received his M.E. and B.E. degrees from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University in 2007 and 2004, respectively. He is a recipient of the Best Student Paper award in IEEE Cloud 2011 and nominated for the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE Cloud 2013.